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	    </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: #663300">Darryl   Martin: <br />
	      Undergraduate student in Civil Engineering</span></p>
    <p align="justify">My name is Darryl   Martin. I am a Mohawk from <SPAN lang="EN">Akwesasne.&nbsp;</SPAN>&nbsp;I am a husband, a   father to four children, and a grandfather. At&nbsp;the age of forty, I decided to   go back to&nbsp;university after finishing another career as a horse shoer.&nbsp;I   am completing my Civil Engineering Bachelor program this semester. I am   presently working for the Mohawk Bridge Consortium's Mercier Bridge   Rehabilitation effort. The role&nbsp;I assume is to&nbsp;help the project manager analyze   and implement resources. </p>
	  <p align="justify">Concordia&rsquo;s Centre for Native   Education has&nbsp;provided a tremendous amount of support to my academic endeavors. They have provided me with resources that&nbsp;I needed to   excel at my degree. The informal atmosphere contributes to relaxed but productive surroundings   with many benefits.</p>
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<p align="justify">This summer, 26-year-old journalism student student Lauren McComber - a Mohawk   from the Kahnawake First Nation - won the prestigious Ted Nolan Rose Nolan   Memorial Scholarship Fund. Out of 200 applicants for the Rose Nolan Scholarship   Fund, only 10 aboriginal women were chosen. Lauren also won the Strategic   Alliance of Broadcasters for Aboriginal Reflection (SABAR) Scholarship, for   which she was the sole recipient. <BR>
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  Upon completion of the course, the   women went back to their communities and implemented what they learned in the   IWCL program. Lauren put together a focus group called 'Re-visioning the   Kanien'keh&aacute;:ka Woman', which explored Kanien'keh&aacute;:ka (Mohawk) women's   traditional values, roles and traits to see how they blend with modern day   non-Native women's values, roles and traits in order to strengthen their   identity and build their self-esteem. <BR>
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          <span style="color: #660000">Duncan Cree</span></span><br />
	    Ph.D. candidate in the department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Duncan Cree Participated in the 20th Space Studies Program hosted by Beihang University in China in 2007.</p>
<p align="justify">Read  the Concordia University NOW article: <span style="font-style: italic"><a href="http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20070927/duncan_cree_gets_spacey_in_china.php">Duncan Cree gets spacey in China</a></span>,  by Dawn Wiseman.</p>
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	  <p align="justify"><span style="color: #000000">Megan Kanerahtenha: wi Whyte</span> is a Mohawk youth of Kahnawake working to  voice the issues of her community to the outside world. She is completing a BA  in Art Education major at Concordia University and will pursue a MA in Art  Therapy. Her Art focuses on the journey of creation and the moments of self  discovery experienced along the way. &nbsp;She states that &ldquo;Art is about living  life and striving to understand our role in the universe. With my work in one  hand and my heart in the other, I wish to teach the world about my culture, my  history, and my future as a First Nation's woman. I want to break the  stereotype simply by living my life in my art practice. I dream to create in  other native communities across Canada, helping all people become artists&quot;.</p>
	  <p>Visit her website for more information: <a href="http://kanerahtenhawi.deviantart.com/">http://kanerahtenhawi.deviantart.com/</a></p>
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